Package: netcfg
Version: 0.70
Severity: wishlist
It would be helpful to the user who wants to install resolvconf if the
static nameserver information that netcfg writes directly to
/etc/resolv.conf were also written to /etc/network/interfaces in the
format required for it to get included in the dynamic resolvconf-generated
resolv.conf file.
I believe that it is safe to enhance netcfg in this way; the additional
options in /etc/network/interfaces have no effect so long as resolvconf
is not installed.
Here is a patch which, although untested, should provide a clear idea of
what I'm suggesting. In creating this patch I have assumed that netcfg
only writes a single interface definition to /e/n/i and I have assumed
that the /e/n/i written by netcfg doesn't get overwritten later in the
installation process. This patch includes the patch I submitted in
#255185 which replaces underscores with hyphens in wireless-* option
names. I have also added a few comments.
--- netcfg-0.70_ORIG/static.c 2004-06-15 06:41:03.000000000 +0200
+++ netcfg-0.70/static.c 2004-06-19 13:38:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -259,14 +259,36 @@
fprintf(fp, "\tgateway %s\n", inet_ntop (AF_INET, &gateway, ptr1, sizeof
(ptr1)));
if (pointopoint.s_addr)
fprintf(fp, "\tpointopoint %s\n", inet_ntop (AF_INET, &pointopoint, ptr1,
sizeof (ptr1)));
+ /*
+ * Write wireless-tools options
+ */
if (is_wireless_iface(interface))
{
- fprintf(fp, "\twireless_mode %s\n",
+ fprintf(fp, "\t# The wireless-* options are used by the wireless-tools
package\n");
+ fprintf(fp, "\twireless-mode %s\n",
(mode == MANAGED) ? "managed" : "ad-hoc");
- fprintf(fp, "\twireless_essid %s\n", essid ? essid : "any");
+ fprintf(fp, "\twireless-essid %s\n", essid ? essid : "any");
if (wepkey != NULL)
- fprintf(fp, "\twireless_key %s\n", wepkey);
+ fprintf(fp, "\twireless-key %s\n", wepkey);
+ }
+ /*
+ * Write resolvconf options
+ * This code should be kept in sync with the code below that
+ * writes the /etc/resolv.conf file
+ */
+ if (nameservers[0].s_addr || (domain && !empty_str(domain))) {
+ int i = 0;
+ fprintf(fp, "\t# The dns-* options are used by the resolvconf package,
if installed\n");
+ if (domain && !empty_str(domain))
+ fprintf(fp, "\tdns-search %s\n", domain);
+ if (nameservers[0].s_addr) {
+ fprintf(fp, "\tdns-nameservers");
+ while (nameservers[i].s_addr)
+ fprintf(fp, " %s",
+ inet_ntop (AF_INET, &nameservers[i++], ptr1,
sizeof (ptr1)));
+ fprintf(fp, "\n");
+ }
}
fclose(fp);
} else
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
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